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From 02/01/2017 to 03/02/2017

03/02/2017

04:17 PM Support #734 (In Progress): Participant move between waves 2 and 3
Dear Leanne,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we c...
Victoria Nolan
04:16 PM Support #733 (In Progress): Identifying residential movers
Dear Rory,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can...
Victoria Nolan
01:32 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Thanks for the clarification Peter - much appreciated. That answers all my questions! Thanks again for being so swi... Mark Fransham
01:03 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Most of these (4,656) are the IEMB sample, who by definition do not have any of the "ub" weights. The other 15 are od... Peter Lynn
12:34 PM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Thanks for the quick response Peter - much appreciated. I've downloaded the data and 4,671 of the rows in the weight... Mark Fransham
11:06 AM Support #736: Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Dear Mark,
We decided to discontinue indscub_xw, but following various enquiries from users we have subsequently p...
Peter Lynn
10:37 AM Support #736 (In Progress): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Dear Mark,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you sh...
Victoria Nolan
10:53 AM Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search
Victoria Nolan
10:53 AM Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items
Victoria Nolan
10:52 AM Support #730 (In Progress): ff_newimm
Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ...
Victoria Nolan
10:52 AM Support #729 (In Progress): modetype variable
Dear Yujung,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as ...
Victoria Nolan
10:51 AM Support #728 (In Progress): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
Dear Dan,
Many thanks for your message - the team here is looking into it and we'll get back to you as soon as we ...
Victoria Nolan
10:50 AM Support #732 (Feedback): Net income variables
Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately this report won't be available until after our next data release (which will be in Nove...
Victoria Nolan
10:37 AM Support #735 (In Progress): Weighting reducing sample numbers
Dear Kirsty,
Many thanks for your enquiry. This has been passed on to our weighting team who will get back to you ...
Victoria Nolan

03/01/2017

10:18 PM Support #736 (Closed): Cross-sectional weight for self-completion questionnaire in wave 6
Hi there,
I've been working with the 'satisfaction' questions from the adult self-completion questionnaire, lookin...
Mark Fransham
10:43 AM Support #735 (Closed): Weighting reducing sample numbers
Hi,
As advised in the user guide, if you want to generalise to the UK population then weighting should be applied....
Kirsty Tiernan

02/28/2017

03:10 PM Support #734 (Closed): Participant move between waves 2 and 3

Dear technical support team,
I would like to enquire about identifying if participants have moved location in th...
Leanne Harris
12:18 PM Support #733 (Closed): Identifying residential movers
Dear Support Team,
I am working on a project where we would like to identify people who change address over any di...
Rory Coulter
09:52 AM Support #732 (Closed): Net income variables
The wave 1-6 user guide says that there is a technical working paper under preparation that will provide details of t... Andrew Aitken

02/27/2017

03:06 PM Support #724: Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
Dear Victoria,
Let me be clearer!

1)I am not English-native, so I am not aware very carefully of the British q...
Lydia Palumbo
11:13 AM Support #724 (Feedback): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
Dear Lydia,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
For your first question, I think that the definiti...
Victoria Nolan
02:34 PM Support #723 (In Progress): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
Victoria Nolan
02:32 PM Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
Many thanks for the reply. I have a couple of follow-up questions re point (1):
1) May I just clarify that there i...
David Hussey
09:46 AM Support #723 (Closed): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
Victoria Nolan
11:42 AM Support #731: De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived
Dear Kirsty,
these variables are "derived variables" - indicated by the _dv suffix - and as such not asked in the qu...
Gundi Knies
09:34 AM Support #731 (Closed): De facto marital status and urban or rural area, derived
Hi,
I hope you are well.
I am doing a project from using your Wave 5, Individual Adult Interview Data e_indresp...
Kirsty Tiernan
11:24 AM Support #725 (Feedback): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples
Dear Lindsay,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
A couple of things we can point out -
If you ...
Victoria Nolan
09:55 AM Support #727 (Closed): Follow up moved out participants
Victoria Nolan
09:53 AM Support #722 (Closed): end date of union and how the union ended
Victoria Nolan
09:50 AM Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS
Victoria Nolan
09:47 AM Support #714 (Closed): Missing values
Victoria Nolan

02/23/2017

07:45 PM Support #730 (Closed): ff_newimm

Hi, I wonder if there is a typo for the universe of "ethid4a" variable in wave 5.
The online documentation says th...
Yujung Whang
06:10 PM Support #729 (Closed): modetype variable

Hi,
I am looking for "modetype" variable from the dataset but I could not find where the variable is stored at....
Yujung Whang
02:03 PM Support #728 (Closed): natch01-natch16 variables in wave 6
Hi,
I am just starting to work with the new wave 6 data (having previously worked with waves 1-5 in a panel study)...
Dan Brown
12:37 PM Support #719 (Resolved): Online variable search
Dear Libby,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you while we were looking into this. We discovered that there w...
Victoria Nolan

02/22/2017

10:59 AM Support #715 (Feedback): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Dear Ben,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you, while we have been looking into this.
Re: Missing val...
Victoria Nolan
10:33 AM Support #727: Follow up moved out participants
Gundi Knies wrote:
> Hi Emily,
> the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website a...
Emily Lowthian
10:30 AM Support #727 (Feedback): Follow up moved out participants
Hi Emily,
the Understanding Society User Guide - which is available from the study website and the UKDS data series ...
Gundi Knies
09:40 AM Support #727 (Closed): Follow up moved out participants
I am looking into using your dataset (waves 1 – 6, end user license version) however, I am slightly confused how you ... Emily Lowthian

02/21/2017

11:08 AM Support #726 (Feedback): Matdep items
Hi Nick,
yes, that seems to be a glitsh in the online dataset documentation. The variables are definitely included...
Gundi Knies

02/20/2017

04:11 PM Support #720 (Closed): GPS & BHPS sample
Victoria Nolan
09:55 AM Support #722: end date of union and how the union ended
Dear Alita,
Thank you very much for your response. I indeed refer to the family data produced by Pronzato, and I w...
Sait Bayrakdar
08:55 AM Support #726 (Closed): Matdep items
Browsing your website, the matdep items a-c in wave 1 are shown as ‘special licence version’ only, but I don’t think ... Nick Bailey

02/17/2017

11:04 AM Support #725 (Closed): Sample sizes nurse visit & blood samples
Dear Understanding Society team,
My colleague and I have recently started working with the nurse and biomarker dat...
Lindsay Richards

02/16/2017

06:31 PM Support #722 (In Progress): end date of union and how the union ended
Hello Sait,
There is no BHPS file called fertility.dta. My guess is that you are referring to the file family.dta....
Alita Nandi
09:28 AM Support #721 (Resolved): ladistc variable missing in BHPS
Victoria Nolan
09:27 AM Support #716 (Closed): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Victoria Nolan
09:25 AM Support #704 (Closed): output area cods and names
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Support #717 (Closed): Deriving hourly wage variable
Victoria Nolan
09:24 AM Support #719 (In Progress): Online variable search
Dear Libby,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best...
Victoria Nolan
09:22 AM Support #724 (In Progress): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
Dear Lydia,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best...
Victoria Nolan
09:20 AM Support #714 (Feedback): Missing values
Dear Luca,
There should not be many inapplicables for the hcond variables in wave one. The inapplicables resulting...
Victoria Nolan

02/15/2017

03:42 PM Support #724 (Closed): Education in BHPS and UKHLS (harmonization and classification)
Dear UKHLS and BHPS users,
I have a question regarding the recoding of the variables on education in both
BHPS ...
Lydia Palumbo

02/14/2017

10:58 PM Support #723: Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
David,
Re. point 1), this all looks broadly fine to me. The only caveat is that the two sets of weights for the di...
Peter Lynn
05:23 PM Support #723 (In Progress): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
Assigned to Peter. Victoria Nolan
05:16 PM Support #723 (Resolved): Combining USOC/BHPS and zero weights
I have a couple more very small queries following on from our analysis; these are mainly for re-assurance that we’ve ... David Hussey
04:48 PM Support #722 (Closed): end date of union and how the union ended
Hi,
I have a question about the Family histories data of BHPS (fertility.dta).
When I crosstab end1 (the reaso...
Sait Bayrakdar

02/13/2017

03:35 PM Support #718 (Closed): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Victoria Nolan
03:33 PM Support #713 (Closed): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Victoria Nolan
03:33 PM Support #711 (Closed): Adult Self Completion Data
Victoria Nolan
03:32 PM Support #712 (Closed): Attrition Rate
Victoria Nolan
03:32 PM Support #692 (Closed): merging _indresp and _child across all waves
Victoria Nolan

02/10/2017

03:48 PM Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Victoria,
Thanks for providing me the link for these two variables. I understand their meanings well now.
...
Tenghao Zheng
11:46 AM Support #720 (Feedback): GPS & BHPS sample
Thanks for clarifying.
Table 21 reports the response rates, including non-response (household refusal etc.). The in...
Gundi Knies
11:18 AM Support #720: GPS & BHPS sample
Hi Gundi,
thank you for your reply. I am looking at this version of data: UKDA-6614-spss w. 1-5. The manual I am a...
Theodora Kokosi
10:26 AM Support #721 (Feedback): ladistc variable missing in BHPS
Dear King Fok,
you are right - access restrictions apply in this case and there are some differences between the BHP...
Gundi Knies
03:13 AM Support #721 (Closed): ladistc variable missing in BHPS
According to the online documentation at https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation/volb/wave1/avars4.html, the ... King Fok

02/09/2017

11:04 AM Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Tenghao,
I'm very sorry about the confusion here, and many thanks for clarifying, that was very helpful.
H...
Victoria Nolan
10:07 AM Support #718: Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Victoria,
Thanks for your quick response.
We have applied the GWAS data (only genetic data) from the Euro...
Tenghao Zheng
09:44 AM Support #718 (Feedback): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Tenghao,
We are slightly confused about the dataset(s) that you are using, and were hoping you could clarify....
Victoria Nolan

02/08/2017

05:10 PM Support #720: GPS & BHPS sample
Hi Theodora,
can you be more specific please. Which two pieces of information are you comparing exactly? And which v...
Gundi Knies
04:59 PM Support #720 (Closed): GPS & BHPS sample
Dear all,
I would like to ask what is the sample size of the respondents in wave 2 and wave 3 (the productive case...
Theodora Kokosi
03:56 PM Support #719 (Closed): Online variable search
Hi,
I’ve just realised that the variable search on the Understanding Society website is case sensitive. When I searc...
Libby Webb
03:37 PM Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Hi Peter

Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply. What you suggest makes perfect sense. Yes I did wo...
Matt Barnes
12:34 PM Support #716: Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Matt,
I suggest a different approach. Let me first describe the approach and then explain why.
Start with the s...
Peter Lynn
09:48 AM Support #716 (In Progress): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
Dear Matt,
Many thanks for your enquiry, I have passed it on to our weighting team.
Best wishes, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
01:54 PM Support #703: Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Hi,
Sorry again for the delayed response - I was finalising exactly what sort of analysis I will be undertaking. If ...
Agnes Norris Keiller
01:09 PM Support #703 (Feedback): Longitudinal weights for periods of years
Dear Agnes,
Just checking if we can help you any further with this query?
Many thanks.
Victoria Nolan
01:21 PM Support #704: output area cods and names
Dear Gundi and Victoria,
Thanks very much for your response.
I checked my dataset and the odd codes only show up fo...
Glenna Nightingale
01:07 PM Support #704: output area cods and names
Hi Glenna,
Just checking if there's anything more we can help you with on this query?
Many thanks, Victoria.
Victoria Nolan
01:13 PM Support #718 (In Progress): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Dear Tenghao,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Be...
Victoria Nolan
09:39 AM Support #718 (Closed): Which age variable to use for GWAS data? "ag16g10" or "ag16g20"
Hi,
I am now working on GWAS data of understanding society cohort, and would like to add age as a covariate in ass...
Tenghao Zheng
01:12 PM Support #715 (In Progress): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Dear Ben,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best w...
Victoria Nolan
01:11 PM Support #714 (In Progress): Missing values
Dear Luca,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The team is looking into it and we will get back to you shortly.
Best ...
Victoria Nolan
12:02 PM Support #717 (Feedback): Deriving hourly wage variable
Dear Nia,
Unfdortunately we do not provide that conversion with our data, but there should be plenty of online res...
Victoria Nolan
09:45 AM Support #702 (Closed): Date of birth of first child
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #710 (Closed): variable `w'lcoh
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #706 (Closed): Religious sample across all waves
Victoria Nolan
09:43 AM Support #707 (Closed): Scottish datazones in SN7248
Victoria Nolan
09:42 AM Support #709 (Closed): how to match spouses across waves
Victoria Nolan
09:42 AM Support #708 (Closed): Youth response rates
Victoria Nolan

02/07/2017

02:03 PM Support #717 (Closed): Deriving hourly wage variable
I am currently writing my dissertation on the Impact of Obesity on Wages in the UK Labour Market using Waves 2 and 3.... nia kennedy
01:12 PM Support #716 (Closed): Weighting linked USoc-NPD dataset
I’m exploring the wellbeing of secondary school children with a Special Educational Need (SEN) using the linked Under... Matt Barnes
10:29 AM Support #715: Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa...
Ben Clark

02/06/2017

02:34 PM Support #715 (Closed): Wave 1 to 6 Data Release - Differences compared to Wave 1 to 5 data release
Good afternoon,
I have recently downloaded the Wave 1 to 6 data release having previously been working with the wa...
Ben Clark

02/02/2017

12:10 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
You mentioned that the conjecture...
Yujung Whang
12:07 PM Support #705: Emigration Status
Thanks for the detailed information.
However, I do have a follow-up question.
(1)
I am using a special license...
Yujung Whang

02/01/2017

03:42 PM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Great - thank you for your help, Victoria!
Best wishes,
Jenny
Jenny Shen
09:01 AM Support #702: Date of birth of first child
Dear Jenny,
No, there is no way of picking up these cases for children born after the participant joined the panel...
Victoria Nolan
11:31 AM Support #714 (Closed): Missing values
Hello, I kindly have a specific question related to the "inapplicable" category within the missing values. Let me ple... Luca Bernardi
10:10 AM Support #713 (Feedback): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Victoria Nolan
09:23 AM Support #713: Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Jane,
Always use the "ub" weights (not "us") for longitudinal analysis starting at wave 2, otherwise the BHPS samp...
Peter Lynn
09:03 AM Support #713 (In Progress): Weighting for longitudinal analysis of USOC waves 2 to 5
Dear Jane,
Many thanks for your query, which has been passed on to the weighting team to look into.
Best wishes...
Victoria Nolan
 

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